Not sure about not needing listening room reflections, over-dampened rooms do sound a bit lifeless. And you read about how disconcerting listening to music in anechoic chambers can be (have not had the pleasure). But agree about the many advantages of IB/soffit-mount. Also think speakers up against the back wall get an overly bad rap, particulrly wrt bass (if one can dial it down accordingly). But if you are wanting the back wall reflections to play less of a part you probably wouldnt want to put the speakers there - to mitigate their contribution you'd want to attenuate and delay these first reflections, which you can only do by getting the speakers away from boundaries (and dampening the wall)?
Apologies to the OP for getting a bit off topic.
Cheers
B
True, listening to to music in an anechoic chamber is not much fun and sounds deeply unnatural (I've tried) but I have never come across an over-dampened room.
On the contrary almost all rooms benefit greatly from installing basstraps plus some reflectors and absorbers, most importantly at the places where first reflections occur.
It is well known in studio design circles that there is an 'ideal' range for the RT60 time: Too long and the sound turns to mush; too short and it becomes a bit lifeless.
Either way isn't bass from a box omnidirectional rather than dipolic?
In other words and depending on wavelength there should be less destructive combfiltering in the bass than with dipoles.
My woofers are less than 12 inches from the walls btw which equates to roughly 1.2kHz at which point the woofer is beaming at a 90deg dispersion, same as my tweeters.
I would however like to hear some ME Geithain as their bass radiates in a cardioid pattern rather than being omnidirectional.
And my apologies too to the OP!
On the contrary almost all rooms benefit greatly from installing basstraps plus some reflectors and absorbers, most importantly at the places where first reflections occur.
It is well known in studio design circles that there is an 'ideal' range for the RT60 time: Too long and the sound turns to mush; too short and it becomes a bit lifeless.
Either way isn't bass from a box omnidirectional rather than dipolic?
In other words and depending on wavelength there should be less destructive combfiltering in the bass than with dipoles.
My woofers are less than 12 inches from the walls btw which equates to roughly 1.2kHz at which point the woofer is beaming at a 90deg dispersion, same as my tweeters.
I would however like to hear some ME Geithain as their bass radiates in a cardioid pattern rather than being omnidirectional.
And my apologies too to the OP!
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